Marshall's bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 31 Jul 2026 04:50:55 -0700 60 Marshall's bookshelf: all 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child]]> 229111032 260 Arelis Calkins Marshall 0 to-read 4.41 Rising Above Adversity: Healing and Nurturing your Inner Child
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]]> The Door 497499 262 Magda Szabó 1843431939 Marshall 0 to-read 4.09 1987 The Door
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]]> <![CDATA[O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: Leave Murder to the Professionals (O'Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. Mystery Series Book 3)]]> 241751744 *Winner of the Silver Medal for Mystery Series from the 2025 Global Book Awards

The homefront, spring 1944, Brooklyn, New York is the neo-noir setting for the final installment of Maeve O'Shaughnessy and Vic Marino's journey since becoming partners in the O'Shaughnessy Investigations detective agency.
After being drawn into World War II with the attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, the United States wholeheartedly united to fight Hitler and Fascism overseas. No one could have foreseen the tragedies and sacrifices everyone would endure. From that date on, Americans dedicated themselves to victory with a shared purpose at home and abroad. Many paid the ultimate price for freedom. Those at home did everything they could to provide support and ensure victory while living lives they never expected.
In Book 1 Maeve, a secretary, was forced through circumstance to allow ex-cop Vic to help her save a failing detective agency her three brothers established but left her in charge of when they went to fight in the war. Besides knowing nothing about running such an agency, she was also guardian of her fifteen-year old brother. Vic brought his streetwise knowledge to support Maeve.
In Book 2 Maeve, a quick learner, and Vic, having worked the “cases nobody wanted” managed to survive but found themselves in a much darker place. They had to deal with mobsters and as FBI informants this time around. Maeve had to toughen up and learn hard lessons about the underbelly of city life and the criminals who ran it.
In Book 3 Maeve’s resolve is strained to the breaking point by demands from all sides. Though Vic supports her and does his best to protect her, she makes a difficult and dangerous decision to go against his advice. On one side, former first love, powerful Irish crime boss Lory, threatens her and those she cares about. On the other side, the FBI demands her help to stop him. The G-Men know she’s holding back information. She knows she can’t divulge all she knows or would face dire consequences. She has to walk a razor’s edge.
Americans are told that D-Day in June 1944 is a turning point in the War. This gives hope and solace to millions of Americans that the War will soon be over. But it becomes clear that the War is going to drag on. On the homefront, everyone feels the strain of ration books, limited food and goods, but worse, the coffins that come home. Telegrams and knocks at the door are dreaded by all as family, neighbors, and friends deal with tragic losses for themselves and others.
From bombings instigated by Nazi collaborators and sympathizers, to boxing, to murder in the setting of a brand new stage play, Maeve is thwarted. Every day it’s only bad news with no progress. When a new theatre is built in Brooklyn for the play, Maeve finds herself involved in another situation she knows nothing about. This becomes Maeve and Vic’s most challenging year. Her brother Jimmy is now a senior in high school. What if the War isn’t over by the time he graduates?
The “side issues” that Maeve and Vic faced in Book 1 and 2 in their earlier years together during the course of the War are addressed. Each book can be read separately, but together show the progression of a journey of two people who have been forced to deal with circumstances beyond their control and survive by their wits in a gritty, dangerous world. For Vic, that means acceptance of his past mistakes. For Maeve that means overcoming paralyzing fear and digging deep to find the strength she needs to protect herself and those she loves.]]> 342 A.G. Russo Marshall 0 to-read 4.39 O'SHAUGHNESSY INVESTIGATIONS, INC.: Leave Murder to the Professionals (O'Shaughnessy Investigations Inc. Mystery Series Book 3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Empress: (The Emperor, The Son and The Thief, #4)]]> 214526540 923 Robert Reid Marshall 0 to-read 4.40 The Empress: (The Emperor, The Son and The Thief, #4)
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]]> The Friends 1504769 176 Kazumi Yumoto 0374324603 Marshall 0 to-read 4.16 1992 The Friends
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]]> Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal 217306484
The Stoneslayer high fantasy series charts a lost world of political scandals, explosive family secrets, and the reincarnation of a line of extraordinary women who challenge the cataclysmic rampage of an ancient, demonic foe.

Book One Scandal

Lt. Helen Andros is a mixed-race outcast in Azgard. Saved from death when her true parentage comes to light, she now faces the outrage of the overclass, the lethal hostility of the mighty Temple of Kronos—and a powerful, high-ranked father she neither knows nor trusts.

Steering a volatile personal journey with her stranger parent, Helen is stalked. Will a hidden menace—the deadly Stoneslayer—plunder the mysterious green gem she inherited from her mother? Will political necessity bind her in marriage to a man she does not love and who cannot love her back?]]> 364 Candace L. Talmadge 1964293014 Marshall 0 to-read 4.38 Stoneslayer: Book One Scandal
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]]> Cockroaches (Harry Hole, #2) 18373214 368 Jo Nesbø Marshall 0 to-read 3.73 1998 Cockroaches (Harry Hole, #2)
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average rating: 3.73
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]]> Seed of the Defiled 37909928 439 John Edgell Marshall 0 to-read 4.36 Seed of the Defiled
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]]> DRAGOON 249752969 113 Andri Elia Elia Marshall 0 to-read 0.0 DRAGOON
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]]> <![CDATA[THE SUPER: A CONSPIRACY THRILLER (THE KATE MERCER FILES Book 1)]]> 250480860
Then she got too close to the wrong case.

When Kate refused to stop investigating a financial fraud scheme, she didn't just lose her job—she was blacklisted. For a year, no one in Phoenix would hire her. Her career was over.

Until The Ashford comes calling.

A mixed-income apartment building needs a new superintendent. The pay is good—suspiciously good. Free lodging included. Yet for someone with Kate's background, it's not a good fit. Not even close.

But after a year of rejection, Kate can't afford to say no.

What she doesn't expect is how familiar it all feels. Tenants who vanish without explanation. Financial discrepancies buried inside bank accounts. Staff who know far more than they should—and say far less.

Then Kate sees the patterns. The same ones that got her fired.

The Ashford isn't just poorly managed. It's part of the operation she was investigating a year ago. And someone hired her knowing exactly who she is.

When she starts asking questions, the response is warnings disguised as concern, silence where cooperation should be, then violence that makes it clear she's crossed the line twice.

Kate has a walk away and stay alive, or finish what they tried to bury her for starting.

Some buildings have secrets. The Ashford is one.

And Kate Mercer just moved in.

Book 1 in The Kate Mercer Files.
]]> 263 D.L. Maddox Marshall 0 to-read 4.40 THE SUPER: A CONSPIRACY THRILLER (THE KATE MERCER FILES Book 1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1]]> 242528807 248 Michael G. Kramer Marshall 0 to-read 4.40 Thusnelda & Armin the Younger Years Book 1
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]]> <![CDATA[The Housekeeper and the Professor]]> 3181564
She is an astute young Housekeeper, with a ten-year-old son, who is hired to care for him.

And every morning, as the Professor and the Housekeeper are introduced to each other anew, a strange and beautiful relationship blossoms between them. Though he cannot hold memories for long (his brain is like a tape that begins to erase itself every eighty minutes), the Professor’s mind is still alive with elegant equations from the past. And the numbers, in all of their articulate order, reveal a sheltering and poetic world to both the Housekeeper and her young son. The Professor is capable of discovering connections between the simplest of quantities--like the Housekeeper’s shoe size--and the universe at large, drawing their lives ever closer and more profoundly together, even as his memory slips away.

The Housekeeper and the Professor is an enchanting story about what it means to live in the present, and about the curious equations that can create a family.]]> 180 Yōko Ogawa 0312427808 Marshall 0 to-read 4.03 2003 The Housekeeper and the Professor
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]]> <![CDATA[Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction]]> 211423616 WINNER: 2025 The Literary Titan Gold Medal

WINNER: 2025 Book Excellence Award (Business)

WINNER: 2025 Axiom Business Book Gold Medal Book Award (Digital Media)

WINNER: 2024 Independent Press Book Award (Distinguished Favorite)

3x WINNER: 2024 Dan Poyner’s Global eBook Awards (Business, Communications, Leadership)


2x WINNER: 2024 Goody Business Book Awards (Business – Management, Leadership – Think Differently)


WINNER: 2024 NYC Big Book Award (Distinguished Favorite)

Seeking Fairness at Work challenges employer “truths” by examining unwritten workplace norms – the invisible lines that when crossed, create organizational dysfunction. This new perspective on employee engagement explains employees’ legitimate frustration and identifies missed management opportunities to improve workplace culture.

Recognized business strategist and Journal of Business Ethics Education editorial board member Hanna Hasl-Kelchner, MBA, JD identifies the five most common workplace norms that betray fairness, leaving employees feeling dispirited, disengaged, and headed for the door by examining the social psychology of how our basic human motivations intersect with the implied workplace social contract.

Clarion Foreward Reviews calls it “pithy and persuasive,” while BookLife Review compares it to Kim Scott’s Radical Respect and Kim Dabb’s You Belong Here.

Using evidence-based science, academic research, interviews, and real-life stories, Hasl-Kelchner merges organizational psychology with the practical aspects of workplace dynamics to offer ethical leadership an actionable five-part framework filled with practical tips to empower more employee engagement and retention, including chapters on how any leader can build Trust with More Self-Awareness, Improve Relationship Chemistry with More Empathy, Make Genuine Accountability a Cornerstone, Maintain a Cultural Safety Net, and Mend the Structural Safety Net Seeking Fairness at Work is ideal for executives, managers, and entrepreneurs who want to raise their employees’ game instead of their defenses; the human resource professionals, consultants, and employment attorneys who advise them; and employees wanting a reality check of their own workplace experiences.
]]> 224 Hanna Hasl-Kelchner Marshall 0 to-read 4.38 Seeking Fairness at Work: Cracking the New Code of Greater Employee Engagement, Retention & Satisfaction
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]]> The Embassy Murders 225634902
When a brilliant emigré scientist is killed by a hit-and-run driver and the body of an American embassy is washed up in the Thames, DCI Frank Merlin and his team are called to investigate.

Merlin's investigations soon ruffle feathers at the Foreign Office - the American ambassador, Joseph Kennedy, is a well-known supporter of appeasement, and has gained many powerful and influential friends in the pursuit of a negotiated peace settlement with Hitler.

The death of yet another embassy employee leads Merlin deep into the seedier quarters of wartime London, until his investigations are hampered by interfering superiors fearful of disrupting international relations. As Merlin is drawn into a web of secrets, what will the truth cost him - and Britain?]]> 354 Mark Ellis Marshall 0 to-read 4.33 2011 The Embassy Murders
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]]> <![CDATA[Dante's Revenge (The Men of Thorne Enterprises Book 3)]]> 59938247 325 Lotchie Burton Marshall 0 to-read 4.38 2021 Dante's Revenge (The Men of Thorne Enterprises Book 3)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream]]> 9742 The Audacity of Hope is Barack Obama's call for a new kind of politics—a politics that builds upon those shared understandings that pull us together as Americans. Lucid in his vision of America's place in the world, refreshingly candid about his family life and his time in the Senate, Obama here sets out his political convictions and inspires us to trust in the dogged optimism that has long defined us and that is our best hope going forward.]]> 375 Barack Obama 0307237699 Marshall 0 to-read 3.84 2006 The Audacity of Hope: Thoughts on Reclaiming the American Dream
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]]> The Stranger 49552 The Stranger has long been considered a classic of twentieth-century literature. Le Monde ranks it as number one on its "100 Books of the Century" list. Through this story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."]]> 123 Albert Camus Marshall 0 to-read 4.04 1942 The Stranger
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> <![CDATA[In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller (The DCI Frank Merlin Series)]]> 200007262
PRAISE FOR THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED DCI FRANK MERLIN

' A richly atmospheric, authentic, and suspenseful detective serie s' JOSEPH FINDER, NYT BESTSELLING AUTHOR

' Masterly . . . compelling . . . one of the most attractive characters to emerge in recent detective-thriller fiction' ANDREW ROBERTS, SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

'Against the backdrop of Blitz-hit London, this stylish thriller sees Scotland Yard's Frank Merlin investigate a tangled conspiracy' SUNDAY MIRROR

As the Battle of Britain rages above, DCI Frank Merlin and his officers investigate the sudden disappearance of Polish RAF pilot Ziggy Kilinski - while battling the looting unleashed by the chaos and destruction of the Blitz.

Unbeknownst to Merlin and his team, Russian spies have also been set loose on the city - instructed to retrieve Stalin's lost gold.

Kilinski's fellow pilots, a disgraced Cambridge don, members of the Polish government in exile and a ruthless Russian gangster are amongst those caught up in Merlin's enquiries.

Sweeping from Stalin's Russia to Civil War Spain, Hitler's Berlin to Churchill's London, a compelling story of treasure, treachery, and murder unfolds.]]> 352 Mark Ellis Marshall 0 to-read 4.37 2014 In the Shadows of the Blitz: A deeply captivating classic crime thriller (The DCI Frank Merlin Series)
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]]> <![CDATA[Murder at Tutley Brewery: A Jack Ludefance Novel]]> 252431154
When a death inside the brewery's walls points to a tangled history of family rivalries, buried betrayals, and carefully guarded lies, the case becomes anything but straightforward. As the evidence deepens, so does the suspicion that the killer isn't just hiding in plain sight- they may be part of the very story Tutley has spent years trying to forget.

With a sharp-eyed investigator, a layered cast of suspects, and a setting rich with atmosphere, Murder at Tutley Brewery delivers a classic mystery puzzle with modern tension. Fans of character-driven crime fiction, small town secrets, and cunning twists will find plenty to savor as the truth slowly comes to the surface.

If you enjoy mysteries where every clue matters and every character has something to hide, this novel will keep you turning pages until the final reveal.
]]> 285 Behcet Kaya Marshall 0 to-read 4.37 Murder at Tutley Brewery: A Jack Ludefance Novel
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]]> <![CDATA[The Death and Life of Great American Cities]]> 30833 The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors in that field are measured. In prose of outstanding immediacy, Jane Jacobs writes about what makes streets safe or unsafe; about what constitutes a neighborhood, and what function it serves within the larger organism of the city; about why some neighborhoods remain impoverished while others regenerate themselves. She writes about the salutary role of funeral parlors and tenement windows, the dangers of too much development money and too little diversity. Compassionate, bracingly indignant, and always keenly detailed, Jane Jacobs's monumental work provides an essential framework for assessing the vitality of all cities.]]> 472 Jane Jacobs 0375508732 Marshall 4 4.29 1961 The Death and Life of Great American Cities
author: Jane Jacobs
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average rating: 4.29
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]]> <![CDATA[The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates]]> 7099273
In December 2000, the Baltimore Sun ran a small piece about Wes Moore, a local student who had just received a Rhodes Scholarship. The same paper also ran a series of articles about four young men who had allegedly killed a police officer in a spectacularly botched armed robbery. The police were still hunting for two of the suspects who had gone on the lam, a pair of brothers. One was named Wes Moore. 

Wes just couldn’t shake off the unsettling coincidence, or the inkling that the two shared much more than space in the same newspaper. After following the story of the robbery, the manhunt, and the trial to its conclusion, he wrote a letter to the other Wes, now a convicted murderer serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole. His letter tentatively asked the questions that had been haunting Who are you? How did this happen?

That letter led to a correspondence and relationship that have lasted for several years. Over dozens of letters and prison visits, Wes discovered that the other Wes had had a life not unlike his Both had had difficult childhoods, both were fatherless; they’d hung out on similar corners with similar crews, and both had run into trouble with the police. At each stage of their young lives they had come across similar moments of decision, yet their choices would lead them to astonishingly different destinies.

Told in alternating dramatic narratives that take readers from heart-wrenching losses to moments of surprising redemption, The Other Wes Moore tells the story of a generation of boys trying to find their way in a hostile world.]]> 233 Wes Moore 0385528191 Marshall 5 3.85 2010 The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True]]> 11256979
Packed with clever thought experiments, dazzling illustrations and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman? This is a page-turning, graphic detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist as well.

Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous evolutionary biologist and one of science education’s most passionate advocates, has spent his career elucidating the wonders of science for adult readers. But now, in a dramatic departure, he has teamed up with acclaimed artist Dave McKean and used his unrivaled explanatory powers to share the magic of science with readers of all ages. This is a treasure trove for anyone who has ever wondered how the world works. Dawkins and McKean have created an illustrated guide to the secrets of our world—and the universe beyond—that will entertain and inform for years to come.]]> 271 Richard Dawkins 1439192812 Marshall 4 4.05 2011 The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> Danse Macabre 11563
Ranging across the whole spectrum of horror in popular culture and going back to the seminal classics of Count Dracula and Frankenstein, Stephen King describes in his ideas how horror works on many levels, and how he brings it to bear in his own inimitable novels.]]> 400 Stephen King 042518160X Marshall 5 3.67 1981 Danse Macabre
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average rating: 3.67
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]]> <![CDATA[If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood]]> 45299992
After more than a decade, when sisters Nikki, Sami, and Tori Knotek hear the word mom, it claws like an eagle’s talons, triggering memories that have been their secret since childhood. Until now.

For years, behind the closed doors of their farmhouse in Raymond, Washington, their sadistic mother, Shelly, subjected her girls to unimaginable abuse, degradation, torture, and psychic terrors. Through it all, Nikki, Sami, and Tori developed a defiant bond that made them far less vulnerable than Shelly imagined. Even as others were drawn into their mother’s dark and perverse web, the sisters found the strength and courage to escape an escalating nightmare that culminated in multiple murders.

]]> 431 Gregg Olsen 1542005248 Marshall 4 3.98 2019 If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood
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]]> <![CDATA[Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting]]> 54895704
Have you ever felt a crushing wave of panic when you can't for the life of you remember the name of that actor in the movie you saw last week, or you walk into a room only to forget why you went there in the first place? If you're over forty, you're probably not laughing. You might even be worried that these lapses in memory could be an early sign of Alzheimer's or dementia. In reality, for the vast majority of us, these examples of forgetting are completely normal. Why? Because while memory is amazing, it is far from perfect. Our brains aren't designed to remember every name we hear, plan we make, or day we experience. Just because your memory sometimes fails doesn't mean it's broken or succumbing to disease. Forgetting is actually part of being human.

In Remember, neuroscientist and acclaimed novelist Lisa Genova delves into how memories are made and how we retrieve them. You'll learn whether forgotten memories are temporarily inaccessible or erased forever and why some memories are built to exist for only a few seconds (like a passcode) while others can last a lifetime (your wedding day). You'll come to appreciate the clear distinction between normal forgetting (where you parked your car) and forgetting due to Alzheimer's (that you own a car). And you'll see how memory is profoundly impacted by meaning, emotion, sleep, stress, and context. Once you understand the language of memory and how it functions, its incredible strengths and maddening weaknesses, its natural vulnerabilities and potential superpowers, you can both vastly improve your ability to remember and feel less rattled when you inevitably forget. You can set educated expectations for your memory, and in doing so, create a better relationship with it. You don't have to fear it anymore. And that can be life-changing.]]> 256 Lisa Genova 0593137957 Marshall 4 4.15 2021 Remember: The Science of Memory and the Art of Forgetting
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]]> <![CDATA[The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success]]> 236085292
The CodeBreaker Mindset™ is a comprehensive blueprint for identifying and dismantling the barriers, both visible and invisible, that hold you back from pursuing your dreams. Renowned strategic growth advisor and business builder Chitra Nawbatt reveals the game-changing methodology that propelled her from humble beginnings to becoming a trusted advisor to Fortune 500 CEOs, a pioneering tech innovator, and a partner at a leading multibillion-dollar global venture capital firm.

Drawing from her groundbreaking career transitions and exclusive insights from top global industry leaders, Nawbatt equips readers with a powerful tool kit for extraordinary achievement. You’ll learn how to:
Master the art of identifying and navigating both written and unwritten rules that govern success in any field, and when and how to strategically topple them
Develop your own “CodeBreaker Mindset™ Equations” and pattern recognition to create breakthrough opportunities
Seize and monetize serendipity and informed intuition for your enrichment and advancement
Liberate yourself from status-quo thinking and orchestrate your own path and playbook to exceptional success, regardless of your starting point or background

Whether you’re seeking to make an unconventional career pivot, pursuing life purpose or higher education, or building a trailblazing venture, The CodeBreaker Mindset™ provides the strategic framework and tactical guidance to transform your aspirations into reality.]]> 288 Chitra Nawbatt 1637748566 Marshall 4 4.32 The CodeBreaker Mindset: The Unwritten Rules for Success
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]]> <![CDATA[Rivers of London: Detective Stories]]> 35529956 Four self-contained magical crimes, ripped from the streets of supernatural London.

From the million-selling Rivers of London novel and graphic novel series by writer Ben Aaronovitch comes this unmissable next chapter in the saga, as PC Peter Grant faces his gruelling Detective exam, forcing him to relive the strangest cases of his career!

From foling an aspiring god to confronting a Virtual Flasher, Peter's police history has been anything but conventional; whether that's chasing down 'Falcon' crimes with the aid of modern technology, or confronting timeless villainy with his magical skill-set. Does Peter have what it takes... or will DI Chopra judge him unsuitable for a badge?]]> 112 Ben Aaronovitch 1785861719 Marshall 3 3.89 2017 Rivers of London: Detective Stories
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average rating: 3.89
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]]> <![CDATA[The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)]]> 46000520
But when a brutal killing takes place on their very doorstep, the Thursday Murder Club find themselves in the middle of their first live case. Elizabeth, Joyce, Ibrahim and Ron might be pushing eighty but they still have a few tricks up their sleeves.

Can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer before it's too late?

Alternate cover edition can be found here .]]> 382 Richard Osman Marshall 3 3.84 2020 The Thursday Murder Club (Thursday Murder Club, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)]]> 935308
Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has piqued his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.
--back cover]]> 280 Henning Mankell 1400031575 Marshall 3 3.79 1991 Faceless Killers (Wallander, #1)
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average rating: 3.79
book published: 1991
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]]> <![CDATA[Thieves on the Fens (DI Nikki Galena, #8)]]> 36672011 She is told the place, time, and who will die.

But the messages are in a secret language used only by villains. Nikki and her team must decode the riddles and work out where the threats are coming from.

Meanwhile, the fens have been hit by a series of “designer burglaries.” It appears that a new gang of thieves are stealing to order.

And things get very close to home when a friend of Nikki’s mother dies suddenly and perhaps suspiciously.

Do any of these events relate, and can Nikki stop the thieves on the fens, before anyone else dies?]]> 309 Joy Ellis Marshall 5 4.39 2017 Thieves on the Fens (DI Nikki Galena, #8)
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]]> Secrets (The Dog Walker #1) 234730056
But in every new town, something pulls her in. A wealthy family with secrets. A romance that isn’t what it seems. A client who might be a killer.

In The Dog Secrets, Jane arrives in Old Saybrook, Connecticut, where the Loomis family reigns over an estate brimming with privilege, power, and carefully buried truths. At first, it seems like the perfect job—steady work, an amazing dog, and an unexpected chance at love. But the deeper Jane is drawn inside, the more dangerous the game becomes.

Smart, addictive, and emotionally layered, The Dog Secrets is a psychological thriller for readers who crave depth, danger, and a heroine who never forgets.

Author’s
While The Dog Secrets is the recommended starting point for the series, the novels can be read in any order. Each story stands alone with new secrets, new dangers, and the same unforgettable heroine. I hope you enjoy all of them!
—D.L. Maddox
]]> 342 D.L. Maddox Marshall 1 4.28 Secrets (The Dog Walker #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Closers (Harry Bosch, #11; Harry Bosch Universe, #15)]]> 32505
In Los Angeles in 1988, a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. The death appeared at first to be a suicide - but some of the evidence contradicted that scenario, and detectives came to believe this was in fact a murder. Despite a by-the-book investigation, no one was ever charged.

And it's not just the girl's family and friends whose lives Bosch is stirring up afresh. With each new development, Harry Bosch finds increasing resistance from within the police force itself. Old enemies are close at hand. Even as he pushes relentlessly to find the truth, Bosch has to wonder if this assignment was intended to be his last. Digging up the past may heal old wounds-or it may expose new, searing ones.

From the mind of the man GQ has called "the best mystery writer in the world," The Closers is a masterpiece of thriller writing that is as sharp and immediate as the greatest fiction.

Also available as a Time Warner AudioBook, eBook and Large Print Edition.]]> 432 Michael Connelly 0446699551 Marshall 3 4.12 2005 The Closers (Harry Bosch, #11; Harry Bosch Universe, #15)
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average rating: 4.12
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire, #12)]]> 27774703 In the latest installment of the New York Times bestselling Longmire series—the basis for the hit drama Longmire, now on Netflix—Walt, Henry, and Vic discover much more than they bargained for when they are called in to investigate a hit-and-run accident near Devils Tower 

In the midst of the largest motorcycle rally in the world, a young biker is run off the road and ends up in critical condition. When Sheriff Walt Longmire and his good friend Henry Standing Bear are called to Hulett, Wyoming—the nearest town to America's first national monument, Devils Tower—to investigate, things start getting complicated. As competing biker gangs; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; a military-grade vehicle donated to the tiny local police force by a
wealthy entrepreneur; and Lola, the real-life femme fatale and namesake for Henry's '59 Thunderbird (and, by extension, Walt's granddaughter) come into play, it rapidly becomes clear that there is more to get to the bottom of at this year's Sturgis Motorcycle Rally than a bike accident. After all, in the words of Arthur Conan Doyle, whose Adventures of Sherlock Holmes the Bear won't stop quoting, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."]]> 317 Craig Johnson 0525426949 Marshall 5 4.13 2016 An Obvious Fact (Walt Longmire, #12)
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average rating: 4.13
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]]> <![CDATA[The Babes in the Wood (Inspector Wexford, #19)]]> 83409
The Babes in the Wood is Ruth Rendell at her very best, a scintillating, precise and troubling story of seduction and religious fanaticism–and murder.]]> 336 Ruth Rendell 1400034191 Marshall 4 3.75 2002 The Babes in the Wood (Inspector Wexford, #19)
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]]> Revelations (Jane Perry #3) 10570900 In this third Jane Perry novel, Laurel Dewey takes Jane out of Denver to the small town of Midas where the Chief of Police is a close friend of Jane's boss. Jacob Van Gorden, the fifteen-year-old son of a prominent area businessman, has disappeared and all signs point to his abductor being Jordan Copeland, a man who committed a similar crime decades ago. Jane settles into this little community for much longer than she wants, living with a preacher and his family (including their eccentric teenage daughter who was Jacob's girlfriend). There are signs that Jacob is still alive, so the clock is ticking. And as Jane investigates Jordan Copeland, she begins to have doubts about his guilt and begins to uncover signs of devastating – and even deadly – secrets all around Midas.

Meanwhile, Jane must deal with two considerable secrets of her own. One hits her in the gut before she leaves Denver and the other creeps up on her from the most unlikely of places. And on top of this, Hank Ross, owner of a bar in Midas, has somehow managed to find a way beneath Jane's armor-plated defenses, forcing her to contend with feelings she hasn't allowed to surface for a very long time.

Revelations is the most powerful and personal Jane Perry novel yet. Teeming with the passions and ambiguities that make Laurel Dewey so compelling to read, it is a breathtaking story of mysteries revealed and withheld. ]]> 480 Laurel Dewey 0984190554 Marshall 5 3.96 2011 Revelations (Jane Perry #3)
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]]> <![CDATA[Whiskey Sour (Jack Daniels #1)]]> 509702 FIRST IN AN EXPLOSIVE THRILLER SERIES, MILLIONS SOLD WORLDWIDE...

Lieutenant Jacqueline "Jack" Daniels is having a bad week. Her live-in boyfriend has left her for his personal trainer, chronic insomnia has caused her to max out her credit cards with late-night home shopping purchases, and a frightening killer who calls himself 'The Gingerbread Man' is dumping mutilated bodies in her district.

While avoiding the FBI and its moronic profiling computer, joining a dating service, mixing it up with street thugs, and parrying the advances of an uncouth PI, Jack and her binge-eating partner, Herb, must catch the maniac before he kills again...and Jack is next on his murder list.

Whiskey Sour is the first book in the bestselling Jack Daniels series, full of laugh-out-loud humor and edge-of-your-seat suspense.

WHISKEY SOUR by J.A. Konrath
You can't catch me...

If you are a more sensitive (or adventurous) reader, this handy scale rates specific categories from 1 (lowest) to 10 (highest) to give you some idea if this is your kind of book.

WHISKEY SOUR
Bad Language - 4
Scary - 8
Violent - 8
Funny - 8
Sexy - 3
Crossovers - Features Jack Daniels, Phineas Troutt, Harry McGlade, and includes characters from the Konrath Dark Thriller Collective, the Codename: Chandler series, and the Timecaster series.

]]> 292 J.A. Konrath 078689072X Marshall 4 3.83 2004 Whiskey Sour (Jack Daniels #1)
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average rating: 3.83
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]]> <![CDATA[Gabriel's Fire (The Men of Thorne Enterprises #2)]]> 41462526 A race to save a life. A ruthless killer. Time is running out. Two weeks ago, Naomi James didn’t exist, but Gabriel Cummings is trained to expect the unexpected. Until the rogue federal agent appears out of nowhere, disrupts his life, and challenges every lesson he’s ever learned.Abandoning common sense, and ignoring the rule of caution, Naomi tracks an elite criminal and hired assassin—alone…and gives new meaning to the phrase ‘a dangerous woman’. Igniting desire and protective impulses, she pushes buttons he didn’t know he had. Trusting gut instinct and ignoring angry protests, the Marine intends to keep her safe, whether she likes it or not. But the odds are stacked against them. And odds are—they’re in over their heads.So…how does a Marine handle a dangerous woman? He adapts and overcomes.Thrust into the world of human trafficking and desperate to save a young girl, Naomi resents Gabe’s interference. Fighting her attraction to the hot investigator she tries to ditch the overbearing, over controlling pain in the butt ex-soldier, but she needs his help. Help she knows comes at a cost. All too familiar with taking chances or playing the cards she’s dealt, Naomi questions—is wagering her heart worth the risk?When a life hangs in the balance and hours matter, she has no choice. She’s given her word.Teaming up with the irritating hunk is inevitable. Because, how can she put a price on a promise? Gabriel’s Fire is Book 2 in The Men of Thorne Enterprises romantic suspense series. Grab your copy of this action packed adventure today.]]> 308 Lotchie Burton Marshall 3 4.31 Gabriel's Fire (The Men of Thorne Enterprises #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Marked (The Boys of Bishop Mountain #1)]]> 62985872 Meet Mark Donovan.
Ex-Army sniper.
CEO of a multi-billion dollar global empire.
Chiseled to the nth degree.
And a man I want nothing to do with.

I know the type.
Dangerous. Sexy.
A bad-boy who fills out a Tom Ford suit or pair of Calvin's in equally drool-worthy ways.
At his core,
The worst kind of heart-breaker.
The kind who doesn't even know he did it.

Mark
Eight years ago I nearly died.
And it wasn't that I didn't remember her.
I didn't recognize her. There's a difference.

She was a kid.
And I was a soldier…
Two seconds from deploying with her brother for our third, and final, tour.
One I wasn’t sure I'd be coming back from.

She thinks I don't remember.
That kiss was beautiful. Innocent.
It kept me alive when I thought it might be my last.
How could I ever forget?

I came back broken. Heartless. Ruthless.
I grew rich beyond my wildest dreams by burying the best parts of myself.
Who I was. What I'd been through.
Killing away all the pieces of me that mattered…everything except that kiss.

So, shove me off all you want, country girl.
Because you've just landed in my sights,
And you're about to be mine.

MARKED is a stand-alone second-chance, military/billionaire romance. This story takes place before The Alex Drake Series.]]> 386 Lexxi James Marshall 4 4.21 2022 Marked (The Boys of Bishop Mountain #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #1)]]> 55566545 Chilling Adventures of Sabrina meets The L Word in this fresh, sizzling rom-com by Lana Harper.

Emmy Harlow is a witch but not a very powerful one—in part because she hasn't been home to the magical town of Thistle Grove in years. Her self-imposed exile has a lot to do with a complicated family history and a desire to forge her own way in the world, and only the very tiniest bit to do with Gareth Blackmoore, heir to the most powerful magical family in town and casual breaker of hearts and destroyer of dreams.

But when a spellcasting tournament that her family serves as arbiters for approaches, it turns out the pull of tradition (or the truly impressive parental guilt trip that comes with it) is strong enough to bring Emmy back. She's determined to do her familial duty; spend some quality time with her best friend, Linden Thorn; and get back to her real life in Chicago.

On her first night home, Emmy runs into Talia Avramov—an all-around badass adept in the darker magical arts—who is fresh off a bad breakup . . . with Gareth Blackmoore. Talia had let herself be charmed, only to discover that Gareth was also seeing Linden—unbeknownst to either of them. And now she and Linden want revenge. Only one question stands: Is Emmy in?

But most concerning of all: Why can't she stop thinking about the terrifyingly competent, devastatingly gorgeous, wickedly charming Talia Avramov?]]> 352 Lana Harper 0593336062 Marshall 4 3.56 2021 Payback's a Witch (The Witches of Thistle Grove, #1)
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average rating: 3.56
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]]> <![CDATA[Morrigan's Cross (Circle Trilogy, #1)]]> 26046
In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea...

Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family's embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for over a thousand years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire will stop at nothing until she rules this world—and those beyond it...

Hoyt is no match for the dark siren. But his powers come from the goddess Morrigan, and it is through her that he will get his chance at vengeance. At Morrigan's charge, he must gather five others to form a ring of power strong enough to overcome Lilith. A circle of six: himself, the witch, the warrior, the scholar, the one of many forms and the one he's lost. And it is in this circle, hundreds of years in the future, where Hoyt will learn how strong his spirit—and his heart—have become...

Note: This edition includes a "Glossary of Irish Words, Characters and Places" immediately after the story concludes.]]> 321 Nora Roberts 0515141658 Marshall 4 4.14 2006 Morrigan's Cross (Circle Trilogy, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Hollow (Sign of Seven, #2)]]> 41769548 #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts continues the thrilling trilogy of a town plagued by evil--and the three men and three women brought together by fate to fight it.

For Fox, Caleb, Gage and the other residents of Hawkins Hollow, the number seven portends doom--ever since, as boys, they freed a demon trapped for centuries when their blood spilled upon The Pagan Stone...

Now, as the dreaded seventh month looms before them, the men can feel the storm brewing. Already they are plagued by visions of death and destruction. But this year, they are better prepared, joined in their battle by three women who have come to The Hollow. Layla, Quinn, and Cybil are somehow connected to the demon, just as the men are connected to the force that trapped it.

Since that day at The Pagan Stone, town lawyer Fox has been able to see into others' minds, a talent he shares with Layla. He must earn her trust, because their link will help fight the darkness that threatens to engulf the town. But Layla is having trouble coming to terms with her newfound ability--and this intimate connection to Fox. She knows that once she opens her mind, she'll have no defenses against the desire that threatens to consume them both...]]> 316 Nora Roberts 198480491X Marshall 4 4.15 2008 The Hollow (Sign of Seven, #2)
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]]> The Prince and the Dressmaker 34506912 Paris, at the dawn of the modern age:

Prince Sebastian is looking for a bride―or rather, his parents are looking for one for him. Sebastian is too busy hiding his secret life from everyone. At night he puts on daring dresses and takes Paris by storm as the fabulous Lady Crystallia―the hottest fashion icon in the world capital of fashion!

Sebastian’s secret weapon is his brilliant dressmaker, Frances―his best friend and one of only two people who know the truth: sometimes this boy wears dresses. But Frances dreams of greatness, and being someone’s secret weapon means being a secret. Forever. How long can Frances defer her dreams to protect her friend?

Jen Wang weaves an exuberantly romantic tale of identity, young love, art, and family. A fairy tale for any age, The Prince and the Dressmaker will steal your heart.]]> 277 Jen Wang 162672363X Marshall 1 4.32 2018 The Prince and the Dressmaker
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]]> <![CDATA[Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)]]> 31180248 Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda—takes center stage in this novel of first love and senior-year angst.

When it comes to drumming, Leah Burke is usually on beat—but real life isn’t always so rhythmic. An anomaly in her friend group, she’s the only child of a young, single mom, and her life is decidedly less privileged. She loves to draw but is too self-conscious to show it. And even though her mom knows she’s bisexual, she hasn’t mustered the courage to tell her friends—not even her openly gay BFF, Simon.

So Leah really doesn’t know what to do when her rock-solid friend group starts to fracture in unexpected ways. With prom and college on the horizon, tensions are running high. It’s hard for Leah to strike the right note while the people she loves are fighting—especially when she realizes she might love one of them more than she ever intended.]]> 352 Becky Albertalli 0062643800 Marshall 3 3.79 2018 Leah on the Offbeat (Simonverse, #3)
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average rating: 3.79
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]]> Distant Dreams (Dreams, #1) 1593046
Cape Helm, Maine, 1830. Shaelyn had thought it was an act. But when she misses the town's familiar modern landmarks, she begins to realize that the ring has taken her back in time! Not only is it stack fast on her finger, trapping her in the past, but the very real ceremony she was just in has left her legally married to the handsome Alec Hawthorne, the very man who has mysteriously appeared in her dreams for as long as she can remember. Now, for the first time in her life, Shaelyn feels like she really belongs. But can the ring that brought them together keep her united with the man she loves for all time?]]> 304 Jenny Lykins 0515123684 Marshall 4 4.06 1998 Distant Dreams (Dreams, #1)
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name: Marshall
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1998
rating: 4
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]]> A Moment In Time 17158200 318 Deb Stover Marshall 4 3.81 2000 A Moment In Time
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average rating: 3.81
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rating: 4
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]]> Steel Blood 215598873 308 Gabriel F.W. Koch 1977272754 Marshall 5 4.32 2024 Steel Blood
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average rating: 4.32
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, #5)]]> 460087 69 Mary Pope Osborne Marshall 5 3.98 1995 Night of the Ninjas (Magic Tree House, #5)
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average rating: 3.98
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]]> Chance of a Lifetime 48713832 In one century she loved him madly, and in another she wants nothing to do with him

In 1844 Ireland, Liam O’Connor, a rogue and a thief, fell madly in love with a squire’s daughter and unwittingly altered the future. Shy and naive Cora McLeod thought Liam was the answer to her prayers. But the angels disagreed and they’ve been waiting for the right moment in time to step in.

Now Liam finds himself reunited with his beloved Cora in Providence Falls, North Carolina. The angels have given Liam a task. He must make sure Cora falls in love with another man—the one she was supposed to marry before Liam interfered. But this Cora is very different from the innocent girl who fell for Liam in the past. She’s a cop and has a confidence and independence he wasn’t expecting. She doesn’t remember Liam or their past lives, nor is she impressed with his attempts to guide her in any way.

Liam wants Cora for himself, but with his soul hanging in the balance, he must choose between a stolen moment in time or an eternity of damnation.]]> 336 Jude Deveraux 0778310116 Marshall 4 3.43 2020 Chance of a Lifetime
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average rating: 3.43
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]]> <![CDATA[Time Patrol (Time Patrol #1-4 + 6 omnibus)]]> 261499 Contents:
* Time Patrol [Time Patrol • 1] (1955) / novelette by Poul Anderson: In the mid-20th century Manse Everard answers a job ad and gets hired as a time cop. Time travel will be invented centuries in the future; untold centuries beyond that mankind has evolved into a species called the Danellians, who persuaded the early time travellers to set up the Time Patrol with the aim of protecting all of time from any alteration by interfering temponauts that might risk the Danellians' existence. Manse's first mission is to go back to the late 19th century to correct the circumstances that led to the appearance of an anachronistic item in an old burial mound
* Brave to Be a King [Time Patrol • 2] (1959) •/ novelette by Poul Anderson: A Time Patrol friend of Manse's, Keith, has gone missing in 6th-century Iran, and Keith's wife begs Manse to go find him. Trouble is, Manse has always had the serious hots for the wife, despite her somewhat whiny voice, so it's very tempting not to try very hard -- to assume that Keith has landed on his feet and is happy where he is, sort of thing. But his honourable self knows better. He discovers Keith has been forced to adopt the persona of Cyrus the Great; rescuing him while preserving the course of history proves to be a far more tortuous business than one might imagine.
* Gibraltar Falls [Time Patrol • 3] (1975) / short story by Poul Anderson: What must have been the most remarkable spectacle of known prehistory, the collapse of the isthmus at the Gates of Hercules and the inundation of the basin that is now the Mediterranean Sea by the waters of the Atlantic
* The Only Game in Town [Time Patrol • 4] (1960)/ novelette by Poul Anderson: Manse and a friend manage to head off the Chinese colonization, pre-Columbus, of the Americas.
8 Delenda Est [Time Patrol • 5] (1955) / novelette by Poul Anderson: Manse and a friend return from a holiday in the Pleistocene to their own time, only to discover it considerably changed; clearly there's been an unauthorized change to history. Eventually they trace it to an incident during the Punic Wars, which incident made it possible for Hannibal to defeat Rome. They succeed in reversing the change, but know that in so doing they're wiping out all the people they've befriended in the alternative 1950s. They succeed, though, in saving the laughing-eyed Hoirish colleen whom Manse's friend has fallen for.
* Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks [Time Patrol • 6] (1983) / novella by Poul Anderson: Tells of the Exaltationists, the 23rd-century cult whose obsessive pursuit of hedonism renders them unimpressed by the effects their vicious power-and pleasure-seeking could do to the timestream, including the possibility of their wiping the existence of their own culture out of history. Pummairam, a youth who takes Manse under his wing when first the patrolman arrives in Tyre, engineers much of the tricksterism Manse must use to thwart the baddies.
* The Sorrow of Odin the Goth [Time Patrol • 7] (1983) / novella by Poul Anderson: A history prof, Carl Farness, has allowed himself to become the personification of the god Odin to a 4th-century tribe of Goths; he has also allowed himself to become far too personally involved with the people whom he's there to study, marrying one of them (with the knowledge of his 20th-century wife) and keeping an eye on the usually somewhat messy fates of his children, grandchildren, etc. Manse gets involved because incarnations of gods are the kind of thing that cause history to be altered; in fact, as Carl points out, all kinds of Goth tribes were convinced they'd been visited by various deities, and their stories were usually quickly dismissed as myths, then forgotten. Still, he must extract himself from the situation with care.
* Star of the Sea [Time Patrol • 8] (1991) / novella by Poul An...]]> 765 Poul Anderson 1416509356 Marshall 5 3.77 1997 Time Patrol (Time Patrol #1-4 + 6 omnibus)
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]]> <![CDATA[Prom Night in Purgatory (Purgatory, #2)]]> 26705418
Johnny Kinross is a boy from the 1950s, a boy trapped in time, and Maggie is the girl who loves him. By some miracle and against all odds, Johnny and Maggie are given a second chance at life and love. But Johnny is freed from Purgatory only to find himself in a totally different time and place, in a world full of strangers. One unsolved mystery becomes another, and Johnny and Maggie must unravel the past to have any chance at a future. 'Prom Night in Purgatory' is the sequel to the love story that is unlike any other, where time is shifting and everything can change, and Maggie must fight for Johnny all over again.]]> 264 Amy Harmon Marshall 4 4.07 2012 Prom Night in Purgatory (Purgatory, #2)
author: Amy Harmon
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average rating: 4.07
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]]> <![CDATA[Whisper Falls (Whisper Falls, #1)]]> 32182449 Beyond the waterfall awaits 1796--and the girl who is slowly capturing his heart. But if Mark travels through time to save Susanna, will her brutal world trap him too?While mountain biking in the woods, Mark Lewis spots a mysterious girl dressed in odd clothing, standing behind a waterfall. When she comments on the strange machine he's riding, he suspects something isn’t right. When Susanna claims to be an indentured servant from 1796, he wonders if she’s crazy, yet he's compelled to find out more. Mark enters a long-distance relationship with Susanna through the temperamental barrier of Whisper Falls.Curious about her world, Mark searches through history to learn about the brutal life she’s trapped in. But knowledge can be dangerous. Soon he must choose between changing the past--or dooming the girl he can’t stop thinking about to a lifetime of misery.PRAISE for WHISPER "... I would recommend [Whisper Falls] to any reader who is interested in historical fiction, thrillers, fantasy, love stories or time travel." - Youth librarian, Boyd Co Libraries WV, USA"Whisper Falls is a fun, action-packed story…" [School Library Journal]"Whisper Falls is captivating! The themes of love and hate in it's many forms and nuances are timeless and will appeal to all generations... I had a hard time putting this book down until I had savored the last page. And I certainly didn't want it to end. Another book? Yes, please!" - M. Winner of a Bronze Medal in the Moonbeam Award for Excellence in Fiction (YA historical/cultural category)]]> 384 Elizabeth Langston 0996737367 Marshall 4 4.08 2013 Whisper Falls (Whisper Falls, #1)
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name: Marshall
average rating: 4.08
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rating: 4
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]]> Lost In The Mist Of Time 4953281 461 Karen Michelle Nutt Marshall 3 4.00 2006 Lost In The Mist Of Time
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average rating: 4.00
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rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[A Bridge Through Time (Thistle & Hive, #1)]]> 23601609 Book 1 of The Thistle & Hive Series

Ashley Moore's life in San Francisco has hit a few snags, not the least of which involves sightings of a mystery man around every corner. Is she losing her mind or does he really exist? Her search for this grey-eyed stranger leads her to Scotland. There she meets a witch with a secret, a vindictive English knight who is bent on revenge, and she crosses a fog shrouded bridge into the arms of a 16th century Highlander.

Cailin MacBayne is no stranger to beautiful women, but has always managed to stay one step ahead of commitment. That all comes to an end when he meets Ashley. He doesn't care where this beautiful, yet unusual lass came from, he's just happy to have found her. Ashley cannot resist the handsome Scot and finds herself falling hopelessly in love. In the process, a secret is revealed, a battle is waged and Ashley must ultimately decide whether to return to her own time or give up her 21st century life to stay with the love she has found in the past.

Scroll up and grab a copy today. ]]> 221 Jennae Vale 0990707024 Marshall 3 4.01 2014 A Bridge Through Time (Thistle & Hive, #1)
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]]> Time and Again 876499 303 Clifford D. Simak 0441810039 Marshall 2 3.92 1951 Time and Again
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average rating: 3.92
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]]> A Wish After Midnight 6475623 244 Zetta Elliott 1441474242 Marshall 4 3.76 2009 A Wish After Midnight
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average rating: 3.76
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]]> <![CDATA[Sweet Barbarian (Visigoth Barbarians #1)]]> 33292971 Look what the Chihuahua dragged in.

When Karly wanders outside her mountain cabin into the snowstorm to see why her dog is going nuts, she’s expecting an injured animal, not a muscular mammoth of a man who’s unconscious and about to freeze to death if she doesn’t drag him inside and try to tend his wounds. He’s wearing only a few pieces of fur-and-leather armor—cosplayer or insane mountain man?—and his wild hair and beard haven’t seen a pair of scissors in a year or more. But when he wakes up and opens those amber-hazel eyes, Karly’s too caught off guard to protest his lack of appropriate clothing.

He doesn’t speak English, so Karly uses her skills as a foreign language teacher (and a lot of charades) to teach him. She needs to figure out who he is, why he’s dressed like a Skyrim character, what happened to him, and where he belongs so she can get him home.

That plan goes awry when his story starts coming out in broken English, and he claims to be a Visigoth from the year 483. Other than that little glitch, he doesn’t seem crazy, so Karly’s not sure whether to take him to the mental hospital or the homeless shelter. Or, just keep him around and drool over his hunky physique, his sweet smile, and his lion’s mane of hair. Plus, when her druggie ex-husband shows up high and hell-bent on manhandling Karly, it comes in handy to have a 6 foot 6 barbarian around to bounce him right on back to his Hummer with a bloody nose.

Valamir is condemned to execution, and the dungeon guards are on their way to his cell. So when his captor’s wife offers to use her Druidic powers to save his life in exchange for his undying pledge of love and loyalty, he sees no other way out. A quick blood-pact and hasty incantation later, he finds himself transported out of prison, trudging down a mountain in a blizzard and stumbling into the back yard of the most lovely guardian angel Wodin could have ever sent him. Karly is beautiful, smart, efficient, and caring—everything Valamir’s ever wanted in a woman. Only problem is, she suspects he’s either lying or delusional when he tells her where he’s from, a huge barrier to winning her trust and love. He has to find a way to prove himself to Karly while protecting her from her ex-husband and praying the Druidic priestess doesn’t make good on her promise to call him back to her side forever.
]]> 394 Jayla Jasso Marshall 4 3.93 Sweet Barbarian (Visigoth Barbarians #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)]]> 8318666 The land of Painted Caves, Jean M. Auel brings the ice-age epic Earth's Children series to an extraordinary conclusion. Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and above all, courage.

As the story opens, Ayla, Jondalar, and their infant daughter, Jonayla are welcomed by the Zelandonii, but problems arise. They are faced with new challenges, not just the ordinary trials of sheer survival, but the complications posed by many groups of people who need to live and work together. The wisdom that Ayla gained from her struggles as an orphaned child, alone in a hostile environment, strengthens her as she moves closer to leadership of the Zelandonia.

Ayla and Jondalar's first priority is the care for their golden-haired child, Jonayla, and the well-being of their amazing animals, Wolf, Whinney, Racer, and Gray. The two participate in hunts to provide food, in travels to Summer Meetings for decision making, and in social activities. Whatever the obstacles, Ayla's inventive spirit produces new ways to lessen the difficulties of daily life: searching for wild edibles to make delicious meals, experimenting with techniques to ease the long journeys the Zelandoni must take, honing her skills as a healer and a leader. And then, there are the Sacred Caves, the caves that Ayla's mentor--the Donier, the First of the Zelandonia--takes her to see. These caves are filled with remarkable art--paintings of mammoths, lions, aurochs, rhinoceros, reindeer, bison, bear. The powerful, mystical aura within these caves sometimes overwhelms Ayla.

Ayla's final preparations for her initiation as a Zelandoni bring The Land of Painted Caves to a riveting climax. So much time apart from Jondalar has caused him to drift away from her. The rituals themselves bring her close to death. But through those rituals, Ayla gains A Gift of Knowledge so important that it will change the world.

Spellbinding drama, meticulous research, fascinating detail, and superb narrative skill combine to make The Land of Painted Caves a captivating, utterly believable creation of a civilization that resonates long after the reader has turned the last page, and serves as an astonishing end to this beloved saga.]]> 828 Jean M. Auel 0517580519 Marshall 5 3.35 2011 The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
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]]> Brave New World 5129 Brave New World is a dystopian social science fiction novel by English author Aldous Huxley. Largely set in a futuristic World State, whose citizens are environmentally engineered into an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation and classical conditioning that are combined to make a dystopian society which is challenged by only a single individual: the story's protagonist.]]> 288 Aldous Huxley 0060929871 Marshall 5 3.99 1932 Brave New World
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]]> Shutter Island 21686 369 Dennis Lehane 038073186X Marshall 4 4.14 2003 Shutter Island
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]]> No Exit 35522836
Darby Thorne is a college student stranded by a blizzard at a highway rest stop in the middle of nowhere. She’s on the way home to see her sick mother. She’ll have to spend the night in the rest stop with four complete strangers. Then she stumbles across a little girl locked inside one of their parked cars.

There is no cell phone reception, no telephone, no way out because of the snow, and she doesn’t know which one of the other travelers is the kidnapper.

Who is the little girl? Why has she been taken? And how can Darby save her?]]> 287 Taylor Adams 1912106760 Marshall 5 3.96 2017 No Exit
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]]> Behind Closed Doors 29437949 The instant New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling debut psychological thriller.

The perfect marriage? Or the perfect lie?

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth; she has charm and elegance. He’s a dedicated attorney who has never lost a case; she is a flawless homemaker, a masterful gardener and cook, and dotes on her disabled younger sister. Though they are still newlyweds, they seem to have it all. You might not want to like them, but you do. You’re hopelessly charmed by the ease and comfort of their home, by the graciousness of the dinner parties they throw. You’d like to get to know Grace better.

But it’s difficult, because you realize Jack and Grace are inseparable.

Some might call this true love. Others might wonder why Grace never answers the phone. Or why she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. Or why she never seems to take anything with her when she leaves the house, not even a pen. Or why there are such high-security metal shutters on all the downstairs windows.

Some might wonder what’s really going on once the dinner party is over, and the front door has closed.

“A hair-raising debut, both unsettling and addictive… A chilling thriller that will keep you reading long into the night.” ― Mary Kubica, New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Good Girl

“This is one readers won’t be able to put down.” ― Booklist (starred review)

"A can’t-put-down psychological thriller.” ― Library Journal (starred review)

“This debut is guaranteed to haunt you… Warning: brace yourself.” ― Bustle

“The sense of believably and terror that engulfs Behind Closed Doors doesn't waver.” ― The Associated Press, picked up by The Washington Post

“This was one of the best and most terrifying psychological thrillers I have ever read.” ― San Francisco Book Review]]> 293 B.A. Paris 1250121000 Marshall 5 3.95 2016 Behind Closed Doors
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]]> Final Girls 32796253  
Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won’t even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.
 
That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.]]> 352 Riley Sager 1101985364 Marshall 4 3.80 2017 Final Girls
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]]> A Flicker in the Dark 57693172
Now 20 years later, Chloe is a psychologist in private practice in Baton Rouge and getting ready for her wedding. She finally has a fragile grasp on the happiness she’s worked so hard to get. Sometimes, though, she feels as out of control of her own life as the troubled teens who are her patients. And then a local teenage girl goes missing, and then another, and that terrifying summer comes crashing back. Is she paranoid, and seeing parallels that aren't really there, or for the second time in her life, is she about to unmask a killer?

In a debut novel that has already been optioned for a limited series by actress Emma Stone and sold to a dozen countries around the world, Stacy Willingham has created an unforgettable character in a spellbinding thriller that will appeal equally to fans of Gillian Flynn and Karin Slaughter.]]> 357 Stacy Willingham 1250803829 Marshall 5 3.94 2022 A Flicker in the Dark
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]]> The Zombie Room 29908754 218 R.D. Ronald Marshall 5 4.10 2012 The Zombie Room
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]]> Gone Girl 19288043 An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here

Who are you?
What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy's friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn't true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren't made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick's beautiful wife?]]> 415 Gillian Flynn 0307588378 Marshall 4 4.22 2012 Gone Girl
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]]> <![CDATA[The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)]]> 54981009 Don’t miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that’s sold over 5 million copies

Before Owen Michaels disappears, he smuggles a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers—Owen’s sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother.

As Hannah’s increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen’s boss, as a US marshal and federal agents arrive at her Sausalito home unannounced, Hannah quickly realizes her husband isn’t who he said he was. And that Bailey just may hold the key to figuring out Owen’s true identity—and why he really disappeared.

Hannah and Bailey set out to discover the truth. But as they start putting together the pieces of Owen’s past, they soon realize they’re also building a new future—one neither of them could have anticipated.]]> 307 Laura Dave 1501171348 Marshall 3 3.78 2021 The Last Thing He Told Me (Hannah Hall, #1)
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]]> Lock Every Door 41837243
As she gets to know the residents and staff of the Bartholomew, Jules finds herself drawn to fellow apartment sitter Ingrid, who comfortingly, disturbingly reminds her of the sister she lost eight years ago. When Ingrid confides that the Bartholomew is not what it seems and the dark history hidden beneath its gleaming facade is starting to frighten her, Jules brushes it off as a harmless ghost story—until the next day, when Ingrid disappears.

Searching for the truth about Ingrid's disappearance, Jules digs deeper into the Bartholomew's dark past and into the secrets kept within its walls. Her discovery that Ingrid is not the first apartment sitter to go missing at the Bartholomew pits Jules against the clock as she races to unmask a killer, expose the building's hidden past, and escape the Bartholomew before her temporary status becomes permanent.]]> 381 Riley Sager 1524745154 Marshall 5 3.86 2019 Lock Every Door
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]]> The Woman in the Window 40389527
Then the Russells move into the house across the way: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are laid bare.

What is real? What is imagined? Who is in danger? Who is in control? In this diabolically gripping thriller, no one—and nothing—is what it seems.]]> 455 A.J. Finn Marshall 4 3.93 2018 The Woman in the Window
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]]> The Girl on the Train 22557272
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found here.]]> 336 Paula Hawkins 1594633665 Marshall 5 3.97 2015 The Girl on the Train
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]]> None of This Is True 62334530
A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix’s children’s school. Josie has been listening to Alix’s podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her series. She is, she tells Alix, on the cusp of great changes in her life.

Josie’s life appears to be strange and complicated, and although Alix finds her unsettling, she can’t quite resist the temptation to keep making the podcast. Slowly she starts to realise that Josie has been hiding some very dark secrets, and before she knows it, Josie has inveigled her way into Alix’s life—and into her home.

But, as quickly as she arrived, Josie disappears. Only then does Alix discover that Josie has left a terrible and terrifying legacy in her wake, and that Alix has become the subject of her own true crime podcast, with her life and her family’s lives under mortal threat.

Who is Josie Fair? And what has she done?]]> 390 Lisa Jewell 1982179007 Marshall 5 4.05 2023 None of This Is True
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]]> Never Lie 62080187
But when they visit the remote manor that once belonged to Dr. Adrienne Hale, a renowned psychiatrist who vanished without a trace four years earlier, a violent winter storm traps them at the estate… with no chance of escape until the blizzard comes to an end.

In search of a book to keep her entertained until the snow abates, Tricia happens upon a secret room. One that contains audio transcripts from every single patient Dr. Hale has ever interviewed. As Tricia listens to the cassette tapes, she learns about the terrifying chain of events leading up to Dr. Hale’s mysterious disappearance.

Tricia plays the tapes one by one, late into the night. With each one, another shocking piece of the puzzle falls into place, and Dr. Adrienne Hale’s web of lies slowly unravels.

And then Tricia reaches the final cassette.

The one that reveals the entire horrifying truth.]]> 286 Freida McFadden Marshall 4 4.08 2022 Never Lie
author: Freida McFadden
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average rating: 4.08
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)]]> 28877 454 Thomas Harris Marshall 5 4.07 1981 Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
author: Thomas Harris
name: Marshall
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1981
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)]]> 28187230 341 Ruth Ware 1501132938 Marshall 5 3.72 2016 The Woman in Cabin 10 (Lo Blacklock, #1)
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average rating: 3.72
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]]> Dark Places 5886881
Ben was a social misfit, ground down by the small-town farming community in which he lived. But he did have a girlfriend - a brooding heavy metal fan called Diondra. Through her, Ben became involved with drugs and the dark arts. When the town suddenly turned against him, his thoughts turned black. But was he capable of murder? Libby must delve into her family's past to uncover the truth - no matter how painful...]]> 424 Gillian Flynn 0307341569 Marshall 5 3.94 2009 Dark Places
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]]> Mystic River 21671
Twenty-five years later, Sean is a homicide detective. Jimmy is an ex-con who owns a corner store. And Dave is trying to hold his marriage together and keep his demons at bay -- demons that urge him to do terrible things. When Jimmy's daughter is found murdered, Sean is assigned to the case. His investigation brings him into conflict with Jimmy, who finds his old criminal impulses tempt him to solve the crime with brutal justice. And then there is Dave, who came home the night Jimmy's daughter died covered in someone else's blood.

A tense and unnerving psychological thriller, Mystic River is also an epic novel of love and loyalty, faith and family, in which people irrevocably marked by the past find themselves on a collision course with the darkest truths of their own hidden selves.]]> 416 Dennis Lehane 0060584750 Marshall 5 4.17 2001 Mystic River
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average rating: 4.17
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]]> The Elephant Tree 9293020 252 R.D. Ronald 1848764561 Marshall 4 3.95 2010 The Elephant Tree
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rating: 4
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]]> Then She Was Gone 35297426 She was fifteen, her mother's golden girl. She had her whole life ahead of her. And then, in the blink of an eye, Ellie was gone.

NOW
It’s been ten years since Ellie disappeared, but Laurel has never given up hope of finding her daughter.

And then one day a charming and charismatic stranger called Floyd walks into a café and sweeps Laurel off her feet.

Before too long she’s staying the night at this house and being introduced to his nine year old daughter.

Poppy is precocious and pretty - and meeting her completely takes Laurel's breath away.

Because Poppy is the spitting image of Ellie when she was that age. And now all those unanswered questions that have haunted Laurel come flooding back.

What happened to Ellie? Where did she go?

Who still has secrets to hide?]]> 356 Lisa Jewell 1501154648 Marshall 5 faves 4.01 2017 Then She Was Gone
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]]> The Only One Left 62703226 At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer—I want to tell you everything.

“It wasn’t me,” Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.]]> 383 Riley Sager 0593183223 Marshall 4 thriller-mystery, owned 4.11 2023 The Only One Left
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]]> Pretty Girls 25574782
Now another girl has disappeared, with chilling echoes of the past. And it seems that she might not be the only one.

Claire is convinced Julia's disappearance is linked.

But when she begins to learn the truth about her sister, she is confronted with a shocking discovery, and nothing will ever be the same...]]> 432 Karin Slaughter 0062430874 Marshall 4 3.96 2015 Pretty Girls
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average rating: 3.96
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)]]> 2373
But now a diabolical killer is challenging Rhyme to a terrifying and ingenious duel of wits. With police detective Amelia Sachs by his side, Rhyme must follow a labyrinth of clues that reaches back to a dark chapter in New York City's past -- and into the darkness as well of the mind of a madman who won't stop until he has stripped life down to the bone.]]> 528 Jeffery Deaver 0451188454 Marshall 3 4.20 1997 The Bone Collector (Lincoln Rhyme, #1)
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average rating: 4.20
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rating: 3
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]]> 1984 61439040
Alternate cover edition can be found here.]]> 368 George Orwell 0452284236 Marshall 4 4.23 1949 1984
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average rating: 4.23
book published: 1949
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)]]> 2429135
An international publishing sensation, Stieg Larsson’s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into one satisfyingly complex and entertainingly atmospheric novel.]]> 480 Stieg Larsson 0670069019 Marshall 3 4.18 2005 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
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average rating: 4.18
book published: 2005
rating: 3
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]]> Bacchanal 55051749 Evil lives in a traveling carnival roaming the Depression-era South. But the carnival’s newest act, a peculiar young woman with latent magical powers, may hold the key to defeating it. Her time has come.

Abandoned by her family, alone on the wrong side of the color line with little to call her own, Eliza Meeks is coming to terms with what she does have. It’s a gift for communicating with animals. To some, she’s a magical tender. To others, a she-devil. To a talent prospector, she’s a crowd-drawing oddity. And the Bacchanal Carnival is Eliza’s ticket out of the swamp trap of Baton Rouge.

Among fortune-tellers, carnies, barkers, and folks even stranger than herself, Eliza finds a new home. But the Bacchanal is no ordinary carnival. An ancient demon has a home there too. She hides behind an iridescent disguise. She feeds on innocent souls. And she’s met her match in Eliza, who’s only beginning to understand the purpose of her own burgeoning powers.

Only then can Eliza save her friends, find her family, and fight the sway of a primordial demon preying upon the human world. Rolling across a consuming dust bowl landscape, Eliza may have found her destiny.]]> 347 Veronica G. Henry 1542027748 Marshall 4 3.84 2021 Bacchanal
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]]> <![CDATA[The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires]]> 44074800 Fried Green Tomatoes and Steel Magnolias meet Dracula in this Southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the '90s about a women's book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend.

Patricia Campbell had always planned for a big life, but after giving up her career as a nurse to marry an ambitious doctor and become a mother, Patricia's life has never felt smaller. The days are long, her kids are ungrateful, her husband is distant, and her to-do list is never really done. The one thing she has to look forward to is her book club, a group of Charleston mothers united only by their love for true-crime and suspenseful fiction. In these meetings, they're more likely to discuss the FBI's recent siege of Waco as much as the ups and downs of marriage and motherhood.

But when an artistic and sensitive stranger moves into the neighborhood, the book club's meetings turn into speculation about the newcomer. Patricia is initially attracted to him, but when some local children go missing, she starts to suspect the newcomer is involved. She begins her own investigation, assuming that he's a Jeffrey Dahmer or Ted Bundy. What she uncovers is far more terrifying, and soon she—and her book club—are the only people standing between the monster they've invited into their homes and their unsuspecting community.]]> 410 Grady Hendrix Marshall 4 3.77 2020 The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
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]]> <![CDATA[House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)]]> 44778083
Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. His brutal skills and incredible strength have been set to one purpose-to assassinate his boss's enemies, no questions asked. But with a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he's offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach.

As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City's underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find, in each other, a blazing passion-one that could set them both free, if they'd only let it.

With unforgettable characters, sizzling romance, and page-turning suspense, this richly inventive new fantasy series delves into the heartache of loss, the price of freedom-and the power of love.]]> 803 Sarah J. Maas 1635574048 Marshall 4 4.43 2020 House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
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average rating: 4.43
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rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Midnight Sun (The Twilight Saga, #5)]]> 53287484 Biss zur Mitternachtssonne erzählt nun endlich Edward von ihrer ersten Begegnung, die ihn wie nichts zuvor in seinem Leben auf die Probe stellt, denn Bella ist zugleich Versuchung und Verheißung für ihn. Der Kampf, der in seinem Innern tobt, um sie und ihre Liebe zu retten, verleiht dieser unvergesslichen Geschichte einen neuen, dunkleren Ton.

Ein Muss für alle Fantasy-Romance-Fans und eine berauschende Liebesgeschichte, die unter die Haut geht.]]> 662 Stephenie Meyer 031670704X Marshall 3 3.74 2020 Midnight Sun (The Twilight Saga, #5)
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name: Marshall
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1)]]> 55605912 0 M.R. Noble Marshall 5 4.26 2020 Karolina Dalca, Dark Eyes (The Dark Eyes #1)
author: M.R. Noble
name: Marshall
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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]]> House of Hollow 54613751
Iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. But when her eldest sister, Grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, Iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind.

As Iris retraces Grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.

The closer Iris gets to the truth, the closer she comes to understanding that the answer is dark and dangerous – and that Grey has been keeping a terrible secret from her for years.]]> 292 Krystal Sutherland 059311034X Marshall 4 4.00 2021 House of Hollow
author: Krystal Sutherland
name: Marshall
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> Brat Farrar 243397 288 Josephine Tey 0684803852 Marshall 4 3.99 1949 Brat Farrar
author: Josephine Tey
name: Marshall
average rating: 3.99
book published: 1949
rating: 4
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]]> The Falsifiers 30118484 Who runs the CFR and for what purpose? That’s what Sliv sets out to discover. His only chance: rise all the way to the top in record time.
The Falsifiers, a European best-seller, is the first installment of a trilogy. It is followed by The Pathfinders and The Showrunners.]]> 375 Antoine Bello 1310695350 Marshall 5 3.80 2007 The Falsifiers
author: Antoine Bello
name: Marshall
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2007
rating: 5
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]]> Anna's Book 831231 384 Barbara Vine 0451405498 Marshall 4 3.92 1993 Anna's Book
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average rating: 3.92
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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]]> Murder Most Immoral 32018058 255 Anthony Hulse Marshall 5 3.75 Murder Most Immoral
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average rating: 3.75
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]]> How to Stop Time 45152372 "She smiled a soft, troubled smile and I felt the whole world slipping away, and I wanted to slip with it, to go wherever she was going... I had existed whole years without her, but that was all it had been. An existence. A book with no words."

Tom Hazard has just moved back to London, his old home, to settle down and become a high school history teacher. And on his first day at school, he meets a captivating French teacher at his school who seems fascinated by him. But Tom has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life.

Unfortunately for Tom, the Albatross Society, the secretive group which protects people like Tom, has one rule: Never fall in love. As painful memories of his past and the erratic behavior of the Society's watchful leader threaten to derail his new life and romance, the one thing he can't have just happens to be the one thing that might save him. Tom will have to decide once and for all whether to remain stuck in the past, or finally begin living in the present.

How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages--and for the ages--about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness.

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Benedict Cumberbatch.]]> 339 Matt Haig 0525522891 Marshall 5 3.77 2018 How to Stop Time
author: Matt Haig
name: Marshall
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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]]> Quantum Time (Quantum, #3) 43165075 386 Douglas Phillips Marshall 4 4.26 2019 Quantum Time (Quantum, #3)
author: Douglas Phillips
name: Marshall
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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]]> Back To You 56468461 254 Steve Bates 1633634965 Marshall 4 4.25 2021 Back To You
author: Steve Bates
name: Marshall
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)]]> 29661618
Behind the seemingly innocuous façade of St Mary's, a different kind of historical research is taking place. They don't do 'time-travel' - they 'investigate major historical events in contemporary time'. Maintaining the appearance of harmless eccentrics is not always within their power - especially given their propensity for causing loud explosions when things get too quiet.

Meet the disaster-magnets of St Mary's Institute of Historical Research as they ricochet around History. Their aim is to observe and document - to try and find the answers to many of History's unanswered questions...and not to die in the process. But one wrong move and History will fight back - to the death. And, as they soon discover - it's not just History they're fighting.

Follow the catastrophe curve from 11th-century London to World War I, and from the Cretaceous Period to the destruction of the Great Library at Alexandria. For wherever Historians go, chaos is sure to follow in their wake....]]> 480 Jodi Taylor Marshall 1 3.81 2013 Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
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name: Marshall
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2013
rating: 1
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]]> The Time Machine 2493
So begins the Time Traveller’s astonishing firsthand account of his journey 800,000 years beyond his own era—and the story that launched H.G. Wells’s successful career and earned him his reputation as the father of science fiction. With a speculative leap that still fires the imagination, Wells sends his brave explorer to face a future burdened with our greatest hopes...and our darkest fears. A pull of the Time Machine’s lever propels him to the age of a slowly dying Earth.  There he discovers two bizarre races—the ethereal Eloi and the subterranean Morlocks—who not only symbolize the duality of human nature, but offer a terrifying portrait of the men of tomorrow as well.  Published in 1895, this masterpiece of invention captivated readers on the threshold of a new century. Thanks to Wells’s expert storytelling and provocative insight, The Time Machine will continue to enthrall readers for generations to come.

 ]]> 118 H.G. Wells Marshall 4 3.90 1895 The Time Machine
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average rating: 3.90
book published: 1895
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[A Pivot In Time (Alien Artifact, #2)]]> 53893747
"Richards is an extraordinary writer," (Dean Koontz) who can "keep you turning the pages all night long." (Douglas Preston)

The Enigma Cube is an alien object of unlimited power, with technology that can catapult civilization to dizzying heights--or destroy it entirely. Kelly Connolly and Justin Boyd are determined to wield its power for good. But China has a cube of its own, and its motivations are much less benign . . .

Otto Richter is an unparalleled genius. To save his own life and reunite with Kelly and Justin in 2027, he's forced to travel back to Ancient Rome. But when he arrives things go horribly wrong. Now their reunion can only take place in the past. Worse, he learns that the alien cube plans to meddle with the timeline. To intervene at a point so pivotal, one wrong move by the time travelers could completely obliterate all of modern history.

"Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton." (SF Book dot com)


NEAR-FUTURE SCIENCE FICTION THRILLERS BY DOUGLAS E. RICHARDS

STANDALONES

QUANTUM LENS
GAME CHANGER
INFINITY BORN
SEEKER
VERACITY
ORACLE

SERIES

WIRED (Wired 1)
AMPED (Wired 2)

MIND'S EYE (Nick Hall 1)
BRAINWEB (Nick Hall 2)
MIND WAR (Nick Hall 3)

SPLIT SECOND(Split Second 1)
TIME FRAME (Split Second 2)

THE ENIGMA CUBE (Alien Artifact 1)
A PIVOT IN TIME (Alien Artifact 2)

Kids Science Fiction Thrillers (9 and up, enjoyed by kids and adults alike)

TRAPPED (Prometheus Project 1)
CAPTURED (Prometheus Project 2)
STRANDED (Prometheus Project 3)

OUT OF THIS WORLD
DEVIL'S SWORD]]> 424 Douglas E. Richards Marshall 3 4.21 2020 A Pivot In Time (Alien Artifact, #2)
author: Douglas E. Richards
name: Marshall
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[This Is How You Lose the Time War]]> 43352954 Burn before reading. Thus begins an unlikely correspondence between two rival agents hellbent on securing the best possible future for their warring factions. Now, what began as a taunt, a battlefield boast, grows into something more. Something epic. Something romantic. Something that could change the past and the future.

Except the discovery of their bond would mean death for each of them. There's still a war going on, after all. And someone has to win that war.]]> 209 Amal El-Mohtar Marshall 5 3.82 2019 This Is How You Lose the Time War
author: Amal El-Mohtar
name: Marshall
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2019
rating: 5
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]]> Rooftops of Tehran 6001011 From "a striking new talent"(Sandra Dallas, author of Tallgrass) comes an unforgettable debut novel of young love and coming of age in an Iran headed toward revolution.

In this poignant, eye-opening and emotionally vivid novel, Mahbod Seraji lays bare the beauty and brutality of the centuries-old Persian culture, while reaffirming the human experiences we all share.

In a middle-class neighborhood of Iran's sprawling capital city, 17-year-old Pasha Shahed spends the summer of 1973 on his rooftop with his best friend Ahmed, joking around one minute and asking burning questions about life the next. He also hides a secret love for his beautiful neighbor Zari, who has been betrothed since birth to another man. But the bliss of Pasha and Zari's stolen time together is shattered when Pasha unwittingly acts as a beacon for the Shah's secret police. The violent consequences awaken him to the reality of living under a powerful despot, and lead Zari to make a shocking choice...]]> 348 Mahbod Seraji 045122681X Marshall 5 3.95 2009 Rooftops of Tehran
author: Mahbod Seraji
name: Marshall
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2009
rating: 5
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